On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 11:37:54AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > I object. > > > > It is ok for me to wait until monday for the new powerpc packages to be > > added, and the kernel-di stuff to be adapted to them, but i will sure as > > hell not wait 1 month for that. > > Read it again, nothing in there says you cannot rev the kernel.
Ok, then it is fine with me. > > Also, i don't particularly care about how this freeze did happen (of the > > kind we will freeze two days from now, don't care if half the stuff is > > broken, etc ...). This is no way to threat the other debian-installer > > developer, setting freezes on a whim without proper notice. > > > > Also don't use the excuse that you were speaking about a freeze since a > > long time, i have repeteadly listed my plans for the powerpc packages > > here since Oldenbourg, and even told you as you were polishing the build > > script for powerpc last week. > > Yes, you've been talking about it forever, with no apparent forward > progress to speak of. Therefore I ignored it. And my regular posts for people to test them don't count ? My quest to understand how the different kind of powerpc hardware work and boot ? Not to speak that i lost more than a week of work because debian-installer ate my harddisk, and the fact that i need 5 hours and more to compile it and more than one hour to upload it. Also, i have been working With Chris, Gaudenz and Thorsten to get a kernel ready which will work with miboot and floppies on old-world pmacs. And i _TOLD_ you about this last week on irc, so why couldn't you tell me about your freeze schedules back then ? I would have uploaded earlier if i had known, or tried to squeeze more time out of my already tight schedule. I didn't upload earlier because i was plagged by a bug which stopped me from installing the kernels on my system, related to dpkg not being able to handle the 30 char filename limit of my amigaos boot partitions, which i took a long time to find. A lot of 5 hours builds happened in that bug hunt. But still, declaring a freeze out of the blue without proper advance warning to the debian-boot mailing list is not a way to handle, and it will only make for delays of the final release. And are you sure the current state of the frozen d-i is even able to handle all the arches and subarches debian sarge is supposed to support ? I seriously doubt it for the powerpc subarches, as seen with what happened to my harddisk, but what about the 5 or so officially supported architectures d-i wasn't even tried on ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
